Within four months, the boulders have cut more than 5.3 miles (8.5 kilometers) through the rugged terrain. Join the expedition during an exploration expedition at Jezero Crater, the site of an ancient lake and river delta, where NASA scientists have probed rocks for a formation the team dubbed “Maaz.”
It escorted the persevering rock north to the Octavia e Butler landing site before turning west to the delta remnants that scholars call “Kodiak” and then to the western Jezero Delta.
When you land in the rover wheel, Perseverance’s pet rocks don’t harm operations, and it remains to be seen how long the new robotic explorer friend will stay.
If the pet rock fell and called the rover, it would be far from home, surrounded by strange and unfamiliar rocks.
Soul and Curiosity Pet Stones
Perseverance isn’t the first spacecraft on Mars to adopt a fart rock.
The Spirit rover, which was active from 2004 to 2010, had a potato-sized boulder strapped to its right rear wheel at the start of its journey. The stone stopped the wheel, so NASA scientists had to remove it.
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